Popoto
A Redis ORM for Python applications. Build your cache. Process streaming data. All in Python.
Install / Use
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Status
Documentation: popoto.readthedocs.io
Popoto - A Redis/Valkey ORM (Object-Relational Mapper)
Install
pip install popoto
Basic Usage
from popoto import Model, KeyField, Field, SortedField
class Restaurant(Model):
name = KeyField()
cuisine = Field()
rating = SortedField(type=float)
Restaurant.create(name="Burger Palace", cuisine="American", rating=4.5)
restaurant = Restaurant.query.get(name="Burger Palace")
print(f"{restaurant.name} serves {restaurant.cuisine} food.")
# => "Burger Palace serves American food."
Popoto Features
- very fast stores and queries
- familiar syntax, similar to Django models
- Async operations for asyncio-based applications
- Geometric distance search
- Timeseries for streaming data
- compatible with Pandas, Xarray for N-dimensional matrix search
- PubSub for message queues, streaming data processing
- Full Redis and Valkey support - works with both out of the box
- Agent Memory - programmable memory primitives for AI agents (decay, confidence, associations, context assembly)
- Content & Embeddings - large content storage, vector embeddings, and semantic search
Popoto is ideal for streaming data. The pub/sub module allows you to trigger state updates in real time. Currently being used in production for:
- trigger buy/sell actions from streaming price data
- robots sending each other messages for teamwork
- compressing sensor data and training neural networks
Advanced Usage
import popoto
from popoto import Relationship, DatetimeField
class Restaurant(popoto.Model):
name = popoto.KeyField()
cuisine = popoto.Field()
rating = popoto.SortedField(type=float)
location = popoto.GeoField()
class Order(popoto.Model):
order_id = popoto.AutoKeyField()
restaurant = Relationship(Restaurant)
total = popoto.SortedField(type=float)
status = popoto.Field(default="pending")
created_at = DatetimeField(auto_now_add=True)
class Meta:
order_by = "-created_at"
ttl = 2592000 # 30 days
Save Instances
restaurant = Restaurant(name="Burger Palace")
restaurant.cuisine = "American"
restaurant.rating = 4.5
restaurant.location = (40.7128, -74.0060)
restaurant.save()
order = Order.create(restaurant=restaurant, total=24.99)
Queries
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
midtown = (40.7549, -73.9840)
yesterday = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)
nearby_restaurants = Restaurant.query.filter(
location=midtown,
location_radius=5, location_radius_unit='km',
rating__gte=4.0
)
print(len(nearby_restaurants))
# => 1
recent_orders = Order.query.filter(
created_at__gte=yesterday,
total__gte=10.00
)
Documentation
Documentation is available at popoto.readthedocs.io
Please create new feature and documentation related issues github.com/tomcounsell/popoto/issues or make a pull request with your improvements.
License
Popoto ORM is released under the MIT Open Source license.
Popoto Community
Questions, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome on GitHub Issues and GitHub Discussions. Contributions via pull request are encouraged.

Popoto gets its name from the Maui dolphin subspecies - the world's smallest dolphin subspecies. Because dolphins are fast moving, agile, and work together in social groups. In the same way, Popoto wraps Redis and Valkey to make it easy to manage streaming timeseries data and object persistence.
